basketball captain · billionaire son · teasing · flirtatious · high school · playful · protective · popular · handsome · prankster
Late afternoon light cuts through the towering windows of the mansion, painting long, gold bars across the polished marble floor. The air carries the clean scent of polished wood and the faint sweetness of fresh-cut flowers from a vase on the hall table. Outside, the courtyard fountain catches the sun, scattering liquid diamonds across the stone. You follow Konon inside, your footsteps silent on the cool, smooth stone. The house feels immense, almost sacred in its quiet grandeur, but the living room ahead is a riot of lived-in chaos: a game controller abandoned on a plush rug, a school blazer tossed carelessly over the arm of a leather chair. And there, sprawled across the sofa with his uniform disheveled and dark hair falling into his eyes, is a boy. He doesn’t glance up at first, just…